This took me back to an encounter almost 35 years ago with a southerner in front of his Orlando business. I was sitting on his bench, eating boiiled peanuts. He came out, and with the thickest drawl I've ever f heard, said loitering wasn't allowed. I apologized, and got up to leave, and he told me since I had been so polite, I could stay as long as I liked.

What's the deal with Rich Hall? I can remember him from TV before most of you were born and I guess he's been in the UK since then?

I think we should run this through the hopper again, so I can give it five more stores.

If you watch "Modern Family", which is one my favorites, one thing you notice is that "politically correct" humor doesn't mean always mean avoiding stereotypes. Sometimes, it means adding a little compassion to the mix.

It's good to not say racist things. It's fine to criticize someone for saying racist things. To demand someone forfeit their career for inadvertently saying something racist is purely fucking horrible, and I think it obstructs progress, because it prevents people from honestly examining and discussing their own prejudices.

I submitted it because I thought it was interesting and informative. Other people voted for it, for whatever reason, perhaps because they enjoy seeing Hooker acting fussy. I'm sorry that this is a problem for you, but I want you to know that believe in you, and I know in my heart that you will find the strength to carry on.

You know what's REALLY not interesting? This same exact bullshit over and over and over and over. If you want to criticize me for not being interesting, that's cool, but could you try not to be so INCREDIBLY FUCKING BORING while doing it? That's the part that sort of pisses me off.

Did you know that there's PORN on the internet now? There's stuff on the internet that I like to masturbate to, but I don't usually post it in here, because sharing it with y'all doesn't really add anything to my masturbatory experience. I posted this because I think it relates to previous discussions about the Forbidden zone. If you can't imagine that, that's a failure of your imagination. I wish Lindsey Ellis would talk about better movies, but she's more of a critic than just about anyone I know on you tube. Everyone else is a comedian first.

Anyway, i submitted this for exactly the reason I indicated. Before I saw this I always thought of Forbidden Zone as random old timey weirdness, but now I see it as directly and consciously inspired by the Fleishman brothers. Seemed like a worthwhile insight. That is all.

>>Plinkett's review of the first one summed it up pretty well. Early on, Spock takes the elevator thing to the bridge, which takes him about the time it takes to turn around in a circle. That doesn't seem like a big deal, but to fans of the original series (or even the original movies) it's a bit of a "fuck you" as that's where they had minute-long (or longer?) often-plot-shifting conversations. Maybe others noticed it too, I don't know.

>>But it's little details like those that I think are more important than everything Star Wars fans (rightfully) bitched about with the prequels. Abrams isn't Roddenberry or Lucas, but you're telling THEIR story. Do your fucking homework if you're gonna make fucktons of dollars doing it.

>>I still don't rightly know what gamergate is about, something to do with Anita or sex or furries maybe, but I bet that deep down, being friends is all you guys really want.

GamerGate is an attempt to use political power to regulate discussion of gaming on the internet. It pretends to be about ethics, it's really about politics, an attempt at an ideological purge. There was a moment when it seemed possible that it might succeed, but that moment has passed. By now, sponsors have got to know who the letters are coming from (even though Gamergate is never mentioned in the letters), and that capitulating will bring them more negative attention than ignoring the letters. So there's no longer any reason to get worked up over this, unless you enjoy trolling and being trolled. A lot. For a long time.

If you do get involved, GamerGate will drive you crazy with its cognative dissonance, the fact that it's message is deliberately obscure yet they complain about being misunderstood, that they don't seem to know what actual ethics are, that they hold themselves to zero ethical standards, that they don't seem to have done their opponents any real damage, yet are constantly declaring that they're winning, etc, etc, etc. It's impossible to tell where the deception ends and the self-deception begins.

It's not the pace I love about the new Trek, it's the surprises. Like When Leonard Nimoy showed up in the first movie, or when the bad guy in the second movie turned out to be Khan, or when Kirk "died" instead of Spock in the second film. Abrams does fascinating things with the altered timeline premise of the reboot, and the new series rewards fans of the older material in ways that I find far more interesting than just a straight retread.

Okay, I was disheartened to have some feminists rather viscously turn on me over THE SHIRT. That was something that happened. But mostly, I just lost interest. I don't think Gamergate is going to succeed in changing the terms of the discussion, so it becomes just the same bullshit over and over and over again.

My opinions are the same as they always were, and I come away from Gamergate wondering, as I always have: does the internet have to be so terrible? Do we go on like this forever?